Infrapink

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[–] Infrapink@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Human life begins at some point after conception but before birth. Therefore, there comes a point in pregnancy at which abortion ends a human life.

[–] Infrapink@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Oh for crying out loud, that is such a Greek attitude. We barbarians are perfectly literate. Just because we don't read or speak Greek specifically doesn't mean we can't read anything. Can you even read Amharic? I can, but to you it all sounds like "bar bar bar" whether I'm speaking Amharic, Egyptian, or Farsi.

You need to look beyond your own borders and realise that "literacy in Greek" ∈ "literacy".

[–] Infrapink@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Email?

Some mobile phones support group texting, which as far as I can tell is a preinvention of WhatsApp.

[–] Infrapink@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

And even that is unnecessary if the wiki in question allows anonymous editing.

[–] Infrapink@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Here it is on desktop.

I agree it could be more prominent; hopefully that improves as kbin matures.

[–] Infrapink@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As others have said: Yes, it does count. You're still making a formal, legally-binding pledge, in front of witnesses, to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

By the way, you don't actually need to swear at all. If you're an atheist, you can instead make a solemn affirmation, which is the same thing but without invoking a deity.

Historian Brett Devereaux goes into the finer details of oaths here. The idea of invoking the names of deities when one makes a promise is as old as religion. The idea is that doing so calls the attention of that deity, who then acts as a witness and enforcer of the promise (so make sure it's carefully worded!) Thus, in ye olden dayes, if you swear by God to tell the truth and then tell a lie, the punishment is damnation in Hell for breaking a promise that God formally witnessed. Touching a Bible (or a relic or religious artifact) makes the oath more potent.

[–] Infrapink@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aren't the Cephalings all genderfluid?

[–] Infrapink@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mango works surprisingly well.

[–] Infrapink@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Beat me to it. Modern controllers are fine, but the art of controller design peaked with the GameCube.

[–] Infrapink@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's still early days, and kbin and Lemmy are experiencing a massive influx of Reddit users.

I would compare it to Mastodon just after Elon Musk took over Twitter. Giant influx, and for a few weeks it was full of people talking about Twitter. But then they got that out of their system and started talking about other stuff, and now Twitter only comes up if Musk does something really, really, really stupid.

I expect Lemmy and kbin will follow a similar trajectory. There will be a period when it's all Reddit sucking all the time, but people will soon enough start using them to share news and links.

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